“Un café del tiempo, por favor” . To pronounce this phrase in Valencia is synonymous with asking for a hot coffee with a glass of ice on the side. Whether it rains, snows or has a heat wave, coffee is always ordered like this in the Valencian Community if you want ice.
Outside the Valencian territory and Catalonia, this phrase can be understood as a coffee or drink at room temperature. In Valencia, on the other hand, it is always a drink accompanied by a glass with ice to which the coffee is subsequently transferred.
Different variants can be used, such as coffee with time coffee, coffee with time milk, weather bonbon the final result is always the same, but it is always the same.
And you, are you one of those who always ask for a time coffee?